Bottle-carrier.



HERMAN JUNGE, OF BALTIMORE MARYLAND.

BOTTLE-CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 14, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN JUNGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, county of Baltimore City, and State of Maryland, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bottle carriers, the object of the invention being to provide a simple, inexpensive and effective bottle carrier which embodies in addition to a suitable carrying case or box, a bottle divider or separator in the form of a rack composed wholly of wire bent in peculiar form and combined so as to effectively support the rack in position in the carrying case or box and at the same time provide a plurality of individual bottle cells or compartments the sides of which are yielding so as to prevent the breakage of the bottles placed therein.

it-h the above and other objects in View, the nature of which will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as herein fully described, illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing :Figure 1 is a plan view of the compartment or rack. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sec tion through the box or carrying case, showing the rack mounted therein. Figs. 3 and 4t are vertical transverse sections on the lines 33 and li of Fig. 1.

The rack contemplated in this invention is composed throughout of wire rolled with sufficient flatness to impart the requisite degree of resiliency thereto to form yielding ahutments or supports for the bottles as will hereinafter appear.

The rack comprises essentially a plurality of end fastener bars 1 extending vertically within the carrying case or box shown at 2 and secured to the ends or sides of the box by providing said end fastener bars with terminal eyes 3 at the opposite ends thereof adapted to receive fasteners preferably in the form of screws 4: by which each fastener bar is fixedly secured at both ends to the interior of the carrying case or box.

Extending from the bars 1 at one end or side of the carrying case to the corresponding bars at the opposite end or the side thereof are upper and lower sets of stringer bars 5 and 6 respectively, and in the preferred embodiment of this invention the said Patented April 20, 1909. Serial No. 421,235.

stringer bars are made heavier than the remaining portions of the rack so as to give the requisite strength and lateral support to the bottles. Extending at right angles to the stringer bars are dividing loops or cross bars 7 each of which is practically continuous or endless and in the form of an elongated loop the upper run of which is secured to the upper series of stringer bars and the lower run of which is secured to the lower set of stringer bars 6. The wire of which the loops or cross bars 7 are formed is kinked at various intervals throughout its length to provide the necessary resiliency or springing action to cushion the bottles placed in the compartment formed between the longitudinal and transverse bars of the rack, it being understood that the bottles are set upright within the case or box 2 so that the bodies of the bottles will rest between the longitudinal and transverse cross bars and nearly or quite in contact therewith. The central portions of the intermediate stringer wires are supported bynieans of stays 8 which connect with the upper and lower central stringers as shown in Fig. l and are provided at their lower extremities with eyes 9 to receive screws or other fasteners by means of which they are secured to the bottom of the carrying case or rack. The marginal stringers are also provided with stays 10 arranged at intervals in the length thereof and the said stays are also provided with eyes 11 to receive fasteners by means of which they are secured to the bottom of the carrying case or box.

By means of the construction above clescribed, a secure connection is obtained be tween the rack and carrying case in which the same is contained. The relative dis position of the stringers and cross bars form a plurality of compartments each of which is adapted to contain a bottle. Furthermore, by kinking or reversely bending the wire at frequent intervals, the necessary resiliency is obtained therein to cushion any jars imparted to the contents of the carrying case and thereby preventing the breakage of the bottles.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

The combination with a carrying case or box, of a bottle rack secured therein and comprising end fastener bars extending vertically and provided at their opposite ends with eyes for receiving fasteners, upper and lower sets or rows of: longitudinal stringer burs ('UIHltCtlDg' said end fastener bars, looped cross bare connecting the upper and lower sets of stringer bars and kinkecl at interruh throughout the length thereof, and vertical stays connecting the upper and lower stringer bare with the upper and lower runs of the looped cross bars and extending below the latter and provided at their lower ends with eyes to receive thetoners for securing the same to the bottom of the earrylng case or box, substantially as (1I-Q11l)(f l In testimony whereof I aflix my signature H1 presence of two witnesses.

HERMAN JUNGE.

lVitnesses THERESA M. AsMUssnN, MAME M. PFISTERER. 

